Brian Grant

The 97-98 Trailblazers... were the early foundation of what became known as the Jailblazers era.

The roster included Rasheed Wallace, Isaiah Ryder, Damon Stoudemire, Arvitas Sabonis, Brian Grant, and Kenny Anderson.

Multiple players already carried reputations for technical fouls, confrontations, or off-court incidents.

Isaiah Ryder had prior issues involving coaches, punctuality, and professionalism dating back to Minnesota.

Go-Bear's contract, Towne's Supermax, and Anthony Edwards' extension had pushed the Timberwolves into brutal luxury tax territory under the new collective bargaining agreement rules.

Shaq Heat Trade.

On July 14th of 2004, the Lakers traded Shaq to the Miami Heat for Lamar Odom, Karen Butler, Brian Grant, and a future first round pick.

That sentence still doesn't feel real 20 years later.

But they got...

They finally traded Mashburn, they traded PJ, they got Eddie, they got Mason, and they got Brian Grant.

But then I...

So from an acquisition standpoint-

So, but going into that season, Ethan, I was the most confident that I had ever been.

Driving up to Boca for that training camp, it was like going to see an all-star team.

Like, that's what you felt had been assembled with EJ, Timmy, Brian Grant, Anthony Mason.

It took a while.

Then the head coach of the Sabres, Lindy Ruff.

The NBA player who you saw in their former NBA player is Brian Grant, who was wearing the Trailblazers sweatshirt.

And Brent has great ties to Portland from the Winterhawks.

His wife, Tammy, is from Portland, Oregon.

And I loved hearing from Brian Grant about how he got to see Brent recently, and that gives him hope as someone with Parkinson's as well as a sports background.

You heard from both of Brent's brothers, his two kids, and then I thought at the end, the written statement from Michael J.

Fox was very poignant because he, of course, is the face of the movement to defeat Parkinson's in the U.S. Yeah,